Volvo USA gets $776 million for construction equipment Volvo’s American construction equipment wing scored a huge contract for three quarters of a billion dollars worth of equipment.

Here’s the thing though: Some of the work to build the machines is going overseas. While there will be manufacturing done in Pennsylvania, other work is being conducted in Sweden and Korea.

This could be construed as a thorn in the side of domestic manufacturers of construction equipment.

This contract is massive, but there were 14 other bidders for it. Since Volvo had the lowest bid and is exporting some of the work overseas, this contract could be controversial for people who think that defence contracts should be in America.

When you picture an iconic satellite, the “bus” is the part in the centre, between the solar panels. It typically holds all of the equipment for the satellite.

The satellite will be geostationary. This means that it orbits the earth at the same speed that the earth rotates, remaining in essentially the same spot in relation to earth. GPS satellites are geostationary.

Either way, this is big bucks for a bus. Whatever the experiment is, the Air Force is really prioritizing it.